I believe liveCDs work because they create ramdisks which are modifiable in memory so that they could technically be exploited in memory until switched off. Unless of course they are read only ram disks.
I installed NoScript recently along with Request Policy. One protects from any request to a foreign domain and one blocks scripts until I allow them.
Have I reduced my exposure enough?
What I want to see is a community mediated system whereby the whitelists and blacklists are distributed amongst the community. A bit like ThreatNet, SpyNet, PrevX and all the other proprietary security systems. How the decision of whether or not to allow or disallow a request will be made but it needs to be made by a massive community. I generally experiment whitelisting a website until it works. If this information was made subscribable, people could browse with a bare minimum of exposure?
This is no original idea for any intent or purpose.
I have wanted this idea for a very long time, you can see my journal entry about it.
Sometimes I want to write into the text of a webpage, not add comments ontop of it. It would be cool to read the web and add sarcastic notes everywhere for your own personal viewing.
While I agree that Facebook is the first well implemented piece of social software of its niche, what is so novel about its design but its momentum?
Does it have anything to do with PHP? Hadoop?
Facebook could be implemented with standard DBMS like MySQL right? try login when I can be bothered - once a week. I think there are a few Open source social web networks:
I find the Frontpage annoying because originally I couldn't work out how to only display things from friends I choose, a whitelist rather than a blacklist. It's actually easy: Make a list of friends that you want to see updates for and then on the homepage move it to the very top on the left menu. Unintuitive but it works.
I was looking up GPS and Linux recently as I would love a handheld GPS system. (not for driving) TomTom seems to be a very popular one and this would be awesome for me.
Here's an interesting Slashdot article, Hackable Car GPS. There's a list of Linux software here. (gpsDrive, qpeGPS, RoadMap, GPS3d, pygps)
Can anyone recommend an affordable handheld GPS devices? Any of them suited for on-foot, rambling or bicyclying? Or is it better to get a PDA or a phone with GPS?
My computer has 3GB memory and that dialogue takes ages to disappear and appear.
It's very slow for some reason. The Opera preference panel sometimes freezes when I press Ok....wonder if having 100s of tabs open has anything to do with it.
Second home probably refers to the owners possessing more than one home. Not sure if the expression is common in America.
Rich people buy another house and let it out, as in the article. Which is probably a good thing otherwise they would have lost possessions which they made no mention of.
Under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 where the definition of music played at a rave was given as: "music" includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats.
- Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 Sections 63, 64 & 65 of the Act targeted electronic dance music played at raves.
and
The Act was ostensibly introduced because of the noise and disruption caused by all night parties to nearby residents, and to protect the countryside. It has also been claimed[by whom?] that it was introduced to kill a popular youth movement that was taking many drinkers out of town centres drinking taxable alcohol and into fields to take untaxed drugs.
Frankly given the state of my licensed local university night clubs and raves after a night, it's very much a good thing that this law is around.
The litter is shocking, the vomit and the blood. It's not nice.
The web was supposed to be a cloud to begin with. I think services like Opera Unite are pulling in the opposite direction and reinforcing what the web was supposed to be like to begin with.
Did you know that the HTTP protocol has PUT and DELETE commands? As far as I can tell no browser implements them. It does explain why we have primitive authentication.
I call services like Opera Unite and Mozilla Weave a personal cloud because they can be hosted yourselves. The Opera servers only provide hole punching between unite users.
It's sad that our society's photographs are on Facebook in low quality. The big tech companies want to make us powerless over our data and retain control of them.
Subscriptions have always been more profitable than actual game sales. Blizzard is laughing its way to the bank after selling the game and then asking for more money to play the game you already paid for.
Testing is a big part of development, programming and development are different things. I would rather employ someone who invents tools that allow him to test behaviours. If you do not see the value doesn't mean it does not exist. It's in various books like the Pragmatic Programmer, Code Complete and Writing Solid Code. They would be a good starting point.
In Excel, they wrote two algorithms to test the appearance of cell data to make sure it was not buggy. This is a good thing because they needed to test for correctness...
If this happens, the faster the world becomes a monoculture completely controlled by few large companies who make society into a single police state.
This is a business decision that only benefits Microsoft. It would allow Microsoft to create monopolies without having to interact with things like the European Union anti-trust.
I think the bare-bones and full featured are niches that will always exist.
Things like Notepad, Vi/Emacs and Notepad++ Google Docs, Microsoft Word/OpenOffice Photoshop, GIMP then Paint.NET Apache, lightHTTPd
Any other examples?
It's kind of sad that the most full featured projects are commercial. I think TIME makes all bare bones software into full featured. I mean, Word is 1983, it has been re-envisioned and re-written many times whereas Google Docs is built on a relatively recent platform.
The Pure Digital camcorder is just another niche. I doubt that the expensive camcorders lost sales to this? Or did they? Does Word lose sales to users of Google Docs?
I think the world wide web IS an example of worse is better! Desktop applications are faster, more capable and powerful yet we rely on relaying redundant TEXT and continually re-drawing the screen....terminal much?
That's fine enough, especially for projects where the people with a vested interest in the project are geeks or developers already.
However if you really want your project to be accepted you have to make an effort to make it accessible to business. The real world runs on time, not love of coding.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar is a particularly interesting essay that is pertinent. Essentially, Linux could be argued more popular today because of its openness and sellability. Read Linus' Linux announcement, it's so full of energy and approachability and it's COMPLETELY newsworthy for any press. Like 'Student takes on Microsoft'.
I love open source because it lets me do things I am incapable of and if it were not for well designed project pages, they would still be dead to me.
Publicity + accessibility = more users + more contributions
Your project will garner support if you put some initial effort into it. I wonder how many OSS coders think they're god's gift to the earth and feel that any time besides coding is a waste of time...
Is anyone else struggling to find the actual article? My CPU and fans went crazy on the actual article.
If you ask me, open source projects need to do these to appeal to the outside world:
Treat the project like an actual marketable product, look at UltraVNC homepage It's delicious, you'd almost expect that you would have to purchase it. The author is obviously passionate about all these features. The download page even has videos for parts of the product!
Naturally, put lots of beautiful screenshots and videos
Advertize open developer chats to get user feedback. Maybe a moderated IRC channel which could then be turned into an interview on the website.
Create narrated videos with Wink. Take a look at some o
Using Mozilla's Press Center as a guide, I found the following:
A dedicated press email address. You could set up an email address that autosubmits to your bug or issue tracker I reckon.
Links to all closely related communities, like Mozillazine, Foxiewire and For the Record. Anything that expresses 'community support' to a journalist will be juicy!
There's a list of rewards and awards down the right side. This kind of thing is quoted by magazines, stuff like 'worlds most secure browser', of course you need reviews first.
Apple has a monopoly on the voice chat features of its phone. It banned Google Talk to maintain the monopoly. It means you have no choice but to use the iPhone's own build in voice chat. They're purposefully locking you in, without competition. Monopoly means:
1. A company or group having exclusive control over a commercial activity.
2. A commodity or service so controlled.
Apple lets other Applications on its platform but as soon as something competes with their monopoly, they block it! Is this not obvious?
Microsoft gets into the same problems with antitrust, why not Apple? I find it funny how I was modded up to 3 insightful then modded down by the Apple fanboys.
I've read the article. It's definitely a different case to Google Talk.
I think one of the reasons they did this WAS because the Palm is now discontinued, they deliberately crippled functionality to maintain the purity of iTunes/iPod. They do not want other companies exploiting their software out of their control.
Palm used essentially an undocumented hack to trick iTunes into thinking it was an iPhone. This should go on the dirty code frontpage article. It saved Palm from having to write their own software and it allowed them to claim iTunes compatibility.
Even worse is probably that knowing how to pretend to be an iPhone proves that they may have been digging into the internals of the iPhone filesystem which they probably want to keep secret.
I still no hardware developer should prevent me from the software I use with my hardware though. Apple wants a monoply over its hardware and software and that's understandable from a business POV.
The summary is a little misleading...They didn't block, they just removed the carpet from under their feet, knowing full well it would cause an incompatibility.
Expect malware to appear or be in the wild already on/in:
pirated DVDs, the ones with dual film and PC content, like the Pokemon DVDs
more flash drives
mp3 players, iPods (using hard drive mode)
Music CDs, the ones with dual PC and audio player content
Facebook applications
second hand routers (Linux routers)
second hand laptops and computers
more flash drives
Windows install CDs
FireFox plugins
web development templates
Packages (deb, rpm whatever), makefiles etc
PDF files
The more I use my laptop, the more I wish to install a hypervisor on the BIOS (preferably based on Linux CoreBOOT or something) and use it to track my laptop and profit from it if it gets stolen.
Slashdot Mirror
I believe liveCDs work because they create ramdisks which are modifiable in memory so that they could technically be exploited in memory until switched off. Unless of course they are read only ram disks.
I installed NoScript recently along with Request Policy. One protects from any request to a foreign domain and one blocks scripts until I allow them.
Have I reduced my exposure enough?
What I want to see is a community mediated system whereby the whitelists and blacklists are distributed amongst the community. A bit like ThreatNet, SpyNet, PrevX and all the other proprietary security systems. How the decision of whether or not to allow or disallow a request will be made but it needs to be made by a massive community. I generally experiment whitelisting a website until it works. If this information was made subscribable, people could browse with a bare minimum of exposure?
Sam
I have heard the case against Safari often.
I have definitely found infected Firefox installations on relative machines. It's not immune because it is open source.
What is the prevailing flaw that Firefox has? Are they like ActiveX scale flaws where they own the PC or are they more minor but still serious?
This is no original idea for any intent or purpose.
I have wanted this idea for a very long time, you can see my journal entry about it.
Sometimes I want to write into the text of a webpage, not add comments ontop of it. It would be cool to read the web and add sarcastic notes everywhere for your own personal viewing.
While I agree that Facebook is the first well implemented piece of social software of its niche, what is so novel about its design but its momentum?
Does it have anything to do with PHP? Hadoop?
Facebook could be implemented with standard DBMS like MySQL right?
try login when I can be bothered - once a week.
I think there are a few Open source social web networks:
http://mashable.com/2007/07/25/open-source-social-platforms/
I find the Frontpage annoying because originally I couldn't work out how to only display things from friends I choose, a whitelist rather than a blacklist. It's actually easy:
Make a list of friends that you want to see updates for and then on the homepage move it to the very top on the left menu. Unintuitive but it works.
I was looking up GPS and Linux recently as I would love a handheld GPS system. (not for driving) TomTom seems to be a very popular one and this would be awesome for me.
Here's an interesting Slashdot article, Hackable Car GPS. There's a list of Linux software here. (gpsDrive, qpeGPS, RoadMap, GPS3d, pygps)
Can anyone recommend an affordable handheld GPS devices? Any of them suited for on-foot, rambling or bicyclying? Or is it better to get a PDA or a phone with GPS?
Whoever modded this troll is a very stupid person.
My computer has 3GB memory and that dialogue takes ages to disappear and appear.
It's very slow for some reason. The Opera preference panel sometimes freezes when I press Ok. ...wonder if having 100s of tabs open has anything to do with it.
I do a lot of walking but now I'll be living in town rather than campus which means it will be every day rather than once or twice a week.
I walked in London for about 1 hour in a smart suit and hot weather without knowing where I was going. I sympathize.
I find this personal mobility devices pathetic for able bodied people.
Why aren't we satisfied with walking anymore? I will be walking 30 minutes twice a day from September.
The only issue is boredom and wasting of time. I will counter this with podcasts.
Second home probably refers to the owners possessing more than one home. Not sure if the expression is common in America.
Rich people buy another house and let it out, as in the article. Which is probably a good thing otherwise they would have lost possessions which they made no mention of.
In the UK there are laws that forbid raving on public property and public parties.
From what seems to be called a 'Free party' on Wikipedia:
and
Frankly given the state of my licensed local university night clubs and raves after a night, it's very much a good thing that this law is around.
The litter is shocking, the vomit and the blood. It's not nice.
The web was supposed to be a cloud to begin with. I think services like Opera Unite are pulling in the opposite direction and reinforcing what the web was supposed to be like to begin with.
Did you know that the HTTP protocol has PUT and DELETE commands? As far as I can tell no browser implements them. It does explain why we have primitive authentication.
I call services like Opera Unite and Mozilla Weave a personal cloud because they can be hosted yourselves. The Opera servers only provide hole punching between unite users.
This is an example of what I want to see http://jkontherun.com/2009/06/16/opera-unite/
and my here.
It's sad that our society's photographs are on Facebook in low quality. The big tech companies want to make us powerless over our data and retain control of them.
Subscriptions have always been more profitable than actual game sales. Blizzard is laughing its way to the bank after selling the game and then asking for more money to play the game you already paid for.
He's wasting his time then. He could be practising.
Testing is a big part of development, programming and development are different things. I would rather employ someone who invents tools that allow him to test behaviours. If you do not see the value doesn't mean it does not exist. It's in various books like the Pragmatic Programmer, Code Complete and Writing Solid Code. They would be a good starting point.
In Excel, they wrote two algorithms to test the appearance of cell data to make sure it was not buggy. This is a good thing because they needed to test for correctness...
If this happens, the faster the world becomes a monoculture completely controlled by few large companies who make society into a single police state.
This is a business decision that only benefits Microsoft. It would allow Microsoft to create monopolies without having to interact with things like the European Union anti-trust.
I imagine there will be few chairs left in this meeting.
Quantum biology
It has its own field of science. Let me guess, you just wanted to say citation needed. Don't.
I've seen them twice now.
I love Rush!
I think the bare-bones and full featured are niches that will always exist.
Things like Notepad, Vi/Emacs and Notepad++
Google Docs, Microsoft Word/OpenOffice
Photoshop, GIMP then Paint.NET
Apache, lightHTTPd
Any other examples?
It's kind of sad that the most full featured projects are commercial. I think TIME makes all bare bones software into full featured. I mean, Word is 1983, it has been re-envisioned and re-written many times whereas Google Docs is built on a relatively recent platform.
The Pure Digital camcorder is just another niche. I doubt that the expensive camcorders lost sales to this? Or did they? Does Word lose sales to users of Google Docs?
I think the world wide web IS an example of worse is better! Desktop applications are faster, more capable and powerful yet we rely on relaying redundant TEXT and continually re-drawing the screen. ...terminal much?
That's fine enough, especially for projects where the people with a vested interest in the project are geeks or developers already.
However if you really want your project to be accepted you have to make an effort to make it accessible to business. The real world runs on time, not love of coding.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar is a particularly interesting essay that is pertinent. Essentially, Linux could be argued more popular today because of its openness and sellability. Read Linus' Linux announcement, it's so full of energy and approachability and it's COMPLETELY newsworthy for any press. Like 'Student takes on Microsoft'.
I love open source because it lets me do things I am incapable of and if it were not for well designed project pages, they would still be dead to me.
Publicity + accessibility = more users + more contributions
Your project will garner support if you put some initial effort into it. I wonder how many OSS coders think they're god's gift to the earth and feel that any time besides coding is a waste of time...
Is anyone else struggling to find the actual article? My CPU and fans went crazy on the actual article.
If you ask me, open source projects need to do these to appeal to the outside world:
If you want support from everyday people, you have to sell them the idea.
Apple has a monopoly on the voice chat features of its phone. It banned Google Talk to maintain the monopoly. It means you have no choice but to use the iPhone's own build in voice chat. They're purposefully locking you in, without competition. Monopoly means:
1. A company or group having exclusive control over a commercial activity.
2. A commodity or service so controlled.
Apple lets other Applications on its platform but as soon as something competes with their monopoly, they block it! Is this not obvious?
Microsoft gets into the same problems with antitrust, why not Apple? I find it funny how I was modded up to 3 insightful then modded down by the Apple fanboys.
I've read the article. It's definitely a different case to Google Talk.
I think one of the reasons they did this WAS because the Palm is now discontinued, they deliberately crippled functionality to maintain the purity of iTunes/iPod. They do not want other companies exploiting their software out of their control.
Palm used essentially an undocumented hack to trick iTunes into thinking it was an iPhone. This should go on the dirty code frontpage article. It saved Palm from having to write their own software and it allowed them to claim iTunes compatibility.
Even worse is probably that knowing how to pretend to be an iPhone proves that they may have been digging into the internals of the iPhone filesystem which they probably want to keep secret.
I still no hardware developer should prevent me from the software I use with my hardware though. Apple wants a monoply over its hardware and software and that's understandable from a business POV.
The summary is a little misleading...They didn't block, they just removed the carpet from under their feet, knowing full well it would cause an incompatibility.
Expect malware to appear or be in the wild already on/in:
The more I use my laptop, the more I wish to install a hypervisor on the BIOS (preferably based on Linux CoreBOOT or something) and use it to track my laptop and profit from it if it gets stolen.
Hey if someone steals my laptop, sit and cry?